Bug#378267: Info received and FILED only (Bug#378267: The 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage - bug #378267)

2008-02-22 Thread Ambrose Li
My comment was too quick. Writer will now disregard CJK text most of the time. However, sometimes (I don't know when and there doesn't seem to be a pattern) it will still attempt to spellcheck CJK words. So the bug is still there, only improved. -- Ambrose Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster de

Bug#466891: openoffice.org: Impossible to right-click CJK text without selecting it

2008-02-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.0~rc1-2 Severity: important Tags: l10n If you need to right-click on some CJK text (e.g., to access the Edit Paragraph Style function that is *only* available in the context menu), OOo will highlight the text for no reason. The result is that you can only

Bug#466893: openoffice.org: Autofit doesn't work if table contains merged cells

2008-02-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.0~rc1-2 Severity: normal If a table contains merged cells, any of the Autofit functions produces very bizzare results. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#332685: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
Yes, the bug still exists in the latest OpenOffice on unstable, with the same symptoms (no line spacing under 7.1pt or over 283.5pt). And this is not a minor problem. Since Microsoft Office does not have these restrictons, this means that OOo Writer is not compatible with Microsoft Office even if

Bug#328140: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
This seems to be fixed in the version in unstable. PS: I don't understand this request; this took me one minute to verify, even though I have to take the trouble to log in remotely, through ssh, over a WAN link. PS: I also would have expected that either the severity be changed or a note posted

Bug#330232: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
The bug still affects the latest Ooo in unstable. As soon as anchor is changed to page, the image is homed to the top-left corner (i.e., not even the horizontal position is reset to zero, the VERTICAL position also changes for no reason). PS: I don't understand this request. I have included a

Bug#418733: openoffice.org: CJK characters shifted in the new Writer

2007-04-12 Thread Ambrose Li
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:03:42PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: tag 418733 + moreinfo thanks Ambrose Li wrote: After doing an apt-get upgrade, all CJK characters are now shifted upwards (or perhaps all non-CJK character are shifted downwards; it's impossible to tell), and this affects

Bug#418733: openoffice.org: CJK characters shifted in the new Writer

2007-04-11 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 Severity: important Tags: l10n After doing an apt-get upgrade, all CJK characters are now shifted upwards (or perhaps all non-CJK character are shifted downwards; it's impossible to tell), and this affects both on-screen viewing and actual printed

Bug#416865: Acknowledgement (openoffice.org-writer: Insert Symbol causes oowriter to hang)

2007-04-02 Thread Ambrose Li
I am postulating that this might have to do with the new OpenOffice trying to find fonts to display characters that does not exist in the chosen font. For font that is causing the strange behaviour has only a few characters defined. But in OOo's Insert symbol dialog (which takes several minutes

Bug#416865: openoffice.org-writer: Insert Symbol causes oowriter to hang

2007-03-30 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-6 Severity: important I have a custom font (made with fontforge) that had been working in previous builds of openoffice.org-writer, and which works in both Windows and OS X, but in the latest build, if I go to Insert Symbol and choose that

Bug#415860: openoffice.org: Writer does not close its files properly

2007-03-22 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Scenario 1: 1. Open/create a document 2. Save as Word 3. Close the document 4. Try to copy the document from a Mac (through Samba) 5. The Mac copies some part of the file, then errors out

Bug#358841: openoffice.org: Impossible to disable Task Pane in OOo 2.0

2006-03-24 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.2-2 Severity: normal In OOo 2.0's Presentation, there is a Task Pane that is impossible to disable. This makes the effective work area for the slide really small compared to OOo 1.4, and make the screen jump (very annoying) if the slide contains an OLE table

Bug#357356: openoffice.org: font replacement broken in latest OpenOffice

2006-03-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.2-1 Severity: normal With the latest openoffice.org package, font replacement can be specified but there is no effect. For example, it was possible to set up font replacement so that, for example, MS Song is translated to AR PL SongtiL GB. With the latest

Bug#353350: openoffice.org: Cannot use the mouse to move text frames in OOo 2.0

2006-02-17 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: important In OpenOffice 2.0 (not 1.x), it is virtually impossible to move text frames, especially if you use a mouse. In OpenOffice 1.1.4, clicking a text frame edits the text. After that, if you click the pointer tool, it gives you a selected

Bug#352842: openoffice.org: No way to figure out User font color

2006-02-14 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: normal In OpenOffice, if a user-specified font colour is used, there is no way for the user to figure out what this colour is. In OOo's Format|Character dialog, the font colour is simply listed as User. If the user tries to use this user

Bug#351081: openoffice.org: Hanging punctuation wrongly obscured by transparent elements

2006-02-02 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: normal 1. Create a 2-column table 2. Type some sentence in the first column with some CJK punctuation (CJK comma, CJK full stop, etc.) 3. Type some short sentence or random characters in the second column 4. Adjust the width of the first

Bug#351099: openoffice.org: Positions other than to Entire Page (when anchor is to page) do not work

2006-02-02 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: important 1. Place a picture 2. Change anchor to Page. Ok 3. Change horizontal position to, say, centre to Page Text Area, ok Picture is now flush with the left margin 4. Using the mouse, move the picture up a tiny bit without moving it

Bug#348898: openoffice.org: Wrong paper size set by new OpenOffice 2.0, causes wrong printouts

2006-02-02 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:22:33PM -0500, Ambrose Li wrote: Even worse things happen when such a document is printed: 1. When printed, OOo 2.0 causes the printout to use Letter size. This can be confirmed by generating a Postscript file and noting that a letter page size is passed

Bug#348898: openoffice.org: Wrong paper size set by new OpenOffice 2.0, causes wrong printouts

2006-02-02 Thread Ambrose Li
The Legal paper size is also wrong. When I go to Format|Page and select Legal paper size, the page size got set to 612pt x 1008.2 pt, which, again, is both wrong and impossible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#350173: openoffice.org: Cannot copy-and-paste between slides

2006-01-27 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: important This is a new OOo 2.0 bug; it worked perfectly in OOo 1.1.x 1. Create a new presentation 2. Create a text box and type something on the slide 3. Copy the text box (Edit|Copy) 4. Create a new slide 5. Pull down the Edit menu; note

Bug#350173: openoffice.org: Cannot copy-and-paste between slides

2006-01-27 Thread Ambrose Li
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Richard/g wrote: I just tried with OOo2.0.1-2 on upgraded Sid and it Works For Me. What else is different about your system? I copied and pasted with Ctrl-V and with middle mouse click with no problems. Hmm. Not sure. But maybe I should

Bug#349069: openoffice.org: Bizzare menu placement when using remote X on Apple's Xquartz X server

2006-01-20 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: normal When OpenOffice is displayed on Apple's Xquartz X server (remote X), it exhibits the following bizzare behaviours: 1. If the window is maximized, the menu bar is displayed on the windows' title bar. This means that a. The menu bar

Bug#348385: openoffice.org: Wrong font size and font bolding for some fonts when printing

2006-01-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.0-5 Severity: normal With some fonts, when printing, OpenOffice 2.0 Writer makes the glyph smaller and artificially bolded, even though the glyphs look fine on the screen and in the PDF. Bolding is NOT applied to the glyphs in question. 1. This is a new

Bug#347454: openoffice.org: Too easy to deselect text when right clicking

2006-01-10 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.0-5 Severity: normal It is too easy to deselect text while right clicking. After selecting some text in Writer, *without moving the mouse*, immediately right click. OpenOffice 2.0 erraneously thinks that the right click should cancel the selection. This

Bug#347461: openoffice.org: Wrong point size displayed on tool bar

2006-01-10 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.0-5 Severity: normal In OpenOffice 2.0, the point size shown on the tool bar is wrong. For example, if the user specifies a point size of 15.9, it will display 15. If the user goes to the text box containing the wrong point size and press the Enter key, the

Bug#346301: openoffice.org: English name of font not recognized

2006-01-06 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.0-5 Severity: normal Tags: l10n In version 2.0 of OpenOffice, if a font has both an English name and a Chinese name, only the Chinese name is recognized as valid; if an old file contains a reference to the font's English name, it is rendered in some

Bug#346133: openoffice.org: Cannot see all glyphs in special characters context menu

2006-01-05 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.0-5 Severity: wishlist In OOo 2.0, text fields have a special characters context menu. However, when the menu is brought up, I found that - The popup uses an apparently-randomly-picked font which contains many missing characters - The user cannot change

Bug#345835: openoffice.org: Wrong file name shown in warning message when saving as a different name

2006-01-03 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.0-5 Severity: normal 1. Open the spreadsheet 2. Save as a csv, for example /tmp/1.csv 3. OpenOffice.org issues a warning message: Warning saving the document 1.csv: Only the active sheet was saved. 4. Save as another csv, for example /tmp/2.csv

Bug#335094: openoffice.org: Some options in the PPD file cannot be accessed

2005-10-24 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 04:32:38AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: Why important? Sorry for the miscategorization. It could be important if our device is configured to block colour jobs without a proper password. I will need to spend some time to see if this is the case, though. An easy

Bug#335094: openoffice.org: Some options in the PPD file cannot be accessed

2005-10-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.4-7 Severity: important I am using OpenOffice to print to our Toshiba e-Studio 3511 device. In the PPD, There is an option to select the Quality of the printouts, which, among other things, tags the job as either mono or colour. Under OpenOffice.org, it is

Bug#332685: openoffice.org: cannot set fixed line spacing below 7.1pt or above 283.5pt

2005-10-07 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.4-7 Severity: important OOo Writer cannot set line spacing to fixed if the desired line spacing is less than 7.1pt or larger than 283.5pt. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#330232: openoffice.org: Changing anchor from to paragraph to to page changes position of graphics

2005-09-26 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.4-7 Severity: important 1. Insert some image 2. Keep image anchored to paragraph 3. Change horizontal position to from left and enter a negative number that will place the image between the page border and the left margin 4. Dismiss the window. The left

Bug#296298: openoffice.org: OOo fails to detect itself having crashed

2005-02-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.3-4 Severity: normal If the user logs out without having quit OOo first (including cases like X crashed etc.), OOo will remain running, unaware that it should quit itself. When the user logs back in and tries to run OOo, no window appears because OOo finds

Bug#282136: openoffice.org: [ooimpress] Bizzare pause after last slide is shown

2004-11-19 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.2dfsg1-2 Severity: important When a slide show is set to auto-run, it gives a bizzare pause after the last slide is shown (before it loops back to the first slide). A very ugly countdown timer is shown during this pause, and there does not seem to be any way

Bug#276724: openoffice.org: Cannot turn off Fit object to paper format in Impress page format

2004-10-15 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.2-5 Severity: normal 1. Create or open a Presentation 2. Go to Page format. The Fit object to paper format option is selected and is not greyed out. 3. Click Fit object to paper format to turn it off, press OK. 4. Go to Page format again. The Fit object to